Nipun Java of India among the 203 players in Global Poker League Draft List

On 25th February 2016, 203 players from across the globe will be up for selection in the 12 teams of the Global Poker League. India’s Nipun Java who sits in 87th position on the GPI chart and tops the GPI India Rankings is also a part of the official list of draftable players released by GPI. All team managers will pick 3 players form the list on the draft day while 2 players will be included as wild card entries in each franchise. The GPL Draft will be hosted by Kara Scott and will feature Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Joe Stapleton & Eric Danis as Analysts during the show.gpl-draft-2016

I’m thrilled (again) to announce the next step in our quest to Sportify Poker, by releasing the list of the 203 poker players that have signed-up to be draftable for the first Global Poker League Draft, February 25th at SLS Beverly Hills and on Twitch.tv,” said Alex Dreyfus, CEO Mediarex. “With more than $550 Million of Lifetime Live Poker Winnings and more than $100 Million of Online Earnings, we are very proud to have the “Creme de la Creme” with more than 60 WSOP Bracelets and 30 WPT titles. The 12 managers are going to have hard-time to pick.”

With a combined live tournament winnings for $562,834,964, the pool of 203 players from 33 different countries will take part in the draft of first season of GPL. USA takes the major share of over 50% in the list of players while Germany, Canada, France, Italy, England, Russia are the other countries with major representation.

Nipun Java who finished 2015 in the pole position on GPI India Rakings will be representing India in the 2016 Global Poker League draft. “I feel blessed and proud to have made the top 100 in GPI in 2015, and be eligible for draft on GPL. It gives me immense satisfaction to have achieved this being an Indian living in the US, who has been playing poker professionally for less than 2 years,” Nipun Java told OPN. “I hope I can inspire other Indian professional poker players to achieve greater success in tournament poker. There is a lot of poker talent and aptitude in India, and I’m positive they would be a force to be reckoned with in the next few years. I believe the Global Poker League is a bold but necessary step in the direction of turning poker into a mainstream game with a global fan following. I wish them success in their attempt of evolving the poker ecosystem and hope to be a part of the process.”

Among the international players, all eyes will be on Byron Kaverman, Antonio Esfandiari, Jeff Madsen, Jonathan Duhamel, Jason Mercier, Brian Rast, Vanessa Selbst, and Kevin MacPhee. Chris Moorman tops the online earners while Esfandiari leads the live earners in the list of 203 players. Italy’s Mustapha Kanit, 2014 WSOP ME champion Martin Jacobson, Belgium’s Davidi Kitai, Germany’s young sensation Fedor Holz and winner of the first-ever Global Poker Masters with team Italy, Germany’s Dominik Nitsche are also the part of this list.

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The complete list of players:

Player Nationality GPI Rank Live Earnings Online Earnings
Byron Kaverman USA 1 $6,757,855
Anthony Zinno USA 3 $5,337,383
Kevin MacPhee USA 5 $5,424,937 $7,118,382
Jason Mercier USA 6 $16,356,296 $2,001,750
Fedor Holz GER 9 $7,549,491
Davidi Kitai BEL 10 $6,757,706 $448,657
Dominik Nitsche GER 13 $5,164,231 $3,398,488
Dzmitry Urbanovich POL 16 $4,190,393
Mike McDonald CAN 18 $12,949,811 $2,940,067
Jonathan Duhamel CAN 21 $17,592,802
Thomas Marchese USA 24 $12,404,012
Benjamin Pollak FRA 25 $2,613,573 $327,067
Mustapha Kanit ITA 31 $5,497,875 $4,203,118
Sam Greenwood CAN 33 $2,798,230 $3,653,541
Igor Yaroshevskyy UKR 34 $1,695,666
Darren Elias USA 35 $3,505,319 $3,646,815
Jason Wheeler USA 36 $2,298,881
Brian Rast USA 38 $16,313,290
Dario Sammartino ITA 39 $3,251,024
Niall Farrell SCO 41 $1,939,694 $2,456,781
Vladimir Troyanovskiy RUS 42 $4,199,228
Scott Clements USA 44 $6,975,297 $3,717,126
Ankush Mandavia USA 45 $2,316,280 $2,773,923
Mike Leah CAN 48 $5,040,388 $2,762,255
Jared Jaffee USA 49 $2,730,423
Ismael Bojang AUT 51 $1,870,754
Hans Winzeler USA 53 $2,009,527
David Yan NZL 57 $1,580,140 $829,705
Shannon Shorr USA 59 $6,052,301
Michael Wang USA 66 $1,433,921 $1,001,503
Andrew Chen CAN 67 $4,652,583 $1,993,787
Mohsin Charania USA 71 $4,724,869
Jeremy Ausmus USA 75 $4,788,806
Sylvain Loosli FRA 76 $4,857,533
Samuel Chartier CAN 77 $2,455,530
Jeff Madsen USA 80 $5,147,837
Brian Yoon USA 81 $2,788,075
Scott Davies USA 86 $1,536,893
Nipun Java IND 87 $1,654,477
Justin Bonomo USA 88 $9,690,053
Vladimir Dobrovolskiy RUS 90 $803,830
Christian Harder USA 99 $3,616,452 $3,239,083
Kiryl Radzivonau BLR 103 $1,534,334 $868,103
Jonathan Little USA 106 $6,257,741 $1,053,162
Sorel Mizzi CAN 110 $11,148,823
Govert Metaal NED 115 $2,117,699
Andrey Pateychuk RUS 116 $2,873,717
Ben Yu USA 121 $1,582,932 $42,575
Matthew Glantz USA 133 $6,021,692
Igor Kurganov RUS 137 $10,218,893
Jussi Nevanlinna FIN 140 $1,843,978
Ricardo Alvarado USA 143 $434,651
Oliver Price ENG 145 $1,465,232
Upeshka De Silva USA 149 $1,010,803
Aaron Mermelstein USA 150 $1,326,382
Dylan Wilkerson USA 151 $1,791,157
Sam Stein USA 153 $4,601,497 $1,611,926
Jake Schwartz USA 154 $985,822
Erwann Pecheux FRA 155 $1,169,511
Allen Kessler USA 163 $3,229,616
Aleksandr Gofman RUS 169 $873,576
Justin Young USA 172 $3,651,893
Max Silver USA 175 $2,358,622
Alex Rocha USA 186 $763,079
Jose Carlos Garcia POL 189 $1,183,077 $1,973,897
Bertrand Grospellier FRA 192 $10,922,427
Jeffrey Gross USA 193 $2,450,671 $522,393
David Baker USA 197 $3,767,257
Christopher DeMaci USA 198 $2,026,257
Justin Liberto USA 204 $1,833,347 $147,690
George Danzer GER 205 $2,249,980
Rep Porter USA 206 $2,900,670
Dani Stern USA 210 $2,733,207 $1,763,804
David Vamplew SCO 215 $3,599,940 $1,970,537
Justin Oliver USA 216 $911,087
Raiden Kan HKG 220 $866,303
Javier Zarco ESP 223 $1,204,811
Chance Kornuth USA 228 $3,241,176 $1,762,732
Noah Bronstein USA 230 $526,940
Timothy Reilly USA 232 $821,795 $1,171,445
Christopher Tryba USA 235 $1,655,716
Iliodoros Kamatakis GRE 239 $623,682
Walter Treccarichi ITA 249 $819,052
Thomas Butzhammer GER 250 $1,124,432
Tobias Peters NED 256 $851,826
Chris Hunichen USA 264 $1,201,785 $8,136,397
Iaron Lightbourne ENG 266 $1,208,280
Benjamin Keeline USA 268 $562,337
Leo Wolpert USA 272 $1,631,600 $992,529
Martin Jacobson SWE 273 $15,045,724
Matthew Salsberg CAN 277 $1,948,129
Joseph Ebanks USA 278 $3,107,576
John Holley USA 279 $1,391,384
Scott Baumstein USA 281 $1,477,398
David Paredes USA 309 $2,270,126
Felix Bleiker SWI 291 $545,508
Michael Laake USA 293 $704,645
Diogo Cardoso POR 294 $532,175
Joseph Couden USA 295 $1,090,210
Jordan Cristos USA 297 $613,355 $1,064,411
David Tuthill ENG 300 $1,448,234
Seth Berger USA 301 $1,005,125
Jonathan Karamalikis AUS 304 $2,567,014 $5,812,977
Isaac Baron USA 305 $5,364,815
Anton Wigg SWE 306 $1,995,352 $6,178,797
Kitty Kuo TAI 308 $1,091,426
Noah Schwartz USA 316 $5,264,152 $780,358
Eugene Katchalov UKR 317 $8,669,109
Yung Hwang USA 319 $1,731,468
Vanessa Selbst USA 321 $11,728,256
Ryan Van Sanford USA 323 $840,175
Chad Eveslage USA 325 $667,597 $3,304,103
Matthew Affleck USA 333 $1,782,928
Manig Loeser GER 337 $1,563,516
Darren Rabinowitz USA 340 $1,164,160 $87,935
Kelly Minkin USA 342 $779,519
Natasha Barbour CAN 347 $688,855
Christopher Klodnicki USA 353 $8,286,614
Rocco Palumbo ITA 354 $1,693,398 $3,373,454
Timothy Adams CAN 355 $2,546,978 $1,403,178
Iacopo Brandi ITA 356 $337,148
Xuan Liu CAN 359 $1,649,190
Mike Gorodinsky USA 361 $2,616,750
Konstantin Puchkov RUS 362 $2,364,898
Jake Cody ENG 363 $4,132,822 $697,494
Dong Guo CHN 372 $554,374
Daniel Weinman USA 373 $1,211,132
Thiago Nishijima BRA 374 $1,784,213
Bryan Paris USA 380 $705,804
Nick Pupillo USA 381 $635,441
Justin Schwartz USA 384 $1,123,924 $3,042
Jason Les USA 403 $1,029,967
Antonio Buonanno ITA 405 $2,345,771
Adam Owen UK 408 $305,147
Andrea Dato ITA 409 $1,719,798
Samuel Panzica USA 411 $731,845
Emil Patel USA 427 $670,937
Pieter de Korver NED 432 $4,075,231
Antonio Esfandiari USA 434 $26,495,567
Alexander Ivarsson SWE 438 $391,513
Ben Winsor ENG 450 $622,568
Jesse Sylvia USA 451 $5,987,767
Nikolay Fal RUS 468 $224,411 $635,168
Li-Ta Hsu TPE 471 $313,665
Esther Taylor-Brady USA 481 $556,610
Diwei Bryan Huang SIN 486 $854,703 $335,550
Alexandru Masek USA 492 $1,306,752
Joao Pires Simao BRA 493 $508,033
James Rann ENG 494 $550,886 $221,883
Ray Henson USA 517 $2,019,553
Anthony Gregg USA 522 $10,476,457
Jared Griener USA 533 $383,117
Maxx Coleman USA 534 $1,201,594
Daniel Strelitz USA 538 $1,038,680 $1,412,310
Jonas Lauck GER 540 $1,137,266 $733,646
Valentin Vornicu ROM 558 $482,454 $178,360
Shawn Buchanan CAN 566 $5,902,874
Dara O’Kearney IRL 571 $747,503 $1,884,206
Nicolau Villa-Lobos BRA 573 $1,160,434
Jason Mo USA 589 $1,806,754
Phil Galfond USA 594 $2,339,619
Oleksandr Gnatenko URK 600 $574,052 $868,763
Felipe “Mojave” Ramos BRA 606 $969,051 $701,286
Sergey Lebedev RUS 612 $1,087,222
Kou Vang USA 616 $892,601 $82,883
Terry Fan TAI 624 $715,496
Jerry Wong USA 641 $1,299,996
Olov Jansson SWE 645 $153,367
Keith Lehr USA 649 $2,736,773
Cate Hall USA 651 $420,675
Kenneth Aldridge USA 656 $1,280,877 $30,538
Fabrizio Gonzalez Cataldi ARG 660 $1,175,430
Dmitry Vitkind RUS 672 $1,290,923 $628,228
Jason Helder USA 703 $1,717,441
James Collopy USA 713 $1,251,342
David Nowling USA 720 $184,692
Matthew Schultz USA 733 $406,720 $584
Gianluca Escobar ITA 747 $243,329 $923,354
Aaron Overton USA 748 $678,478
William Foxen USA 757 $183,920 $552,446
Brian Benhamou FRA 762 $616,564
Jonathan Roy CAN 765 $2,087,523
Peter Eichhardt SWE 769 $820,570
Carlos Chadha USA 785 $471,832
Chris Moorman ENG 793 $4,107,768 $12,963,272
Guillaume Diaz FRA 795 $372,351
Weiyi Zhang CHN 823 $253,446
Andrey Kotelnikov RUS 834 $200,126
Phong ‘Turbo’ Nguyen USA 836 $980,570
Romain Lewis FRA 847 $216,455
William Reynolds USA 871 $1,808,446 $1,698,059
Muhamet Perati ALB 875 $416,232
Clyde Tjauw For NED 885 $517,335
Fatima Moreira de Melo NED 891 $440,228
Gregory Marcus USA 906 $329,253
Mark Radoja CAN 908 $1,906,952
Dylan Hortin USA 915 $651,514
Phillip Mcallister ENG 944 $540,467 $2,052,592
Joe Tehan USA 955 $4,287,302
Guy Taylor ENG 961 $136,769 $337,208
Luis Ferreira BRA 972 $456,789
Petr Jelinek CZE 987 $343,023

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